[lubuntu-devel] Spreadsheet for testing RAM for installing. Was: Re: non pae

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Phill,

I suggest that you can mention that 256 MB is the minimum RAM to install 
Lubuntu Xenial. But near that statement you should also mention, that 
256 MB is not enough for normal browsing of modern (and bloated) web 
pages. We recommend at least 512 MB RAM in order to get a fair 
performance of 32-bit Lubuntu (and more is needed for 64-bit Lubuntu, 
maybe 768 MB).

I think the statement about 700 MB is left from the time before zram was 
introduced.

Best regards
Nio

ps 1/
I'm testing installing in my IBM Thinkpad T42 with Pentium M now. It 
installed fairly well from the Lubuntu Xenial desktop 32-bit iso file 
with the additional boot options

linux ... mem=224M forcepae --- forcepae

But I would still recommend 256 MB as minimum RAM.

After the second reboot into the installed system it is idling with a 
RAM usage of 116 MB (which is good compared to previous versions).

ps 2/
See the modified spreadsheet (version 3) - slightly modified
/ds

Den 2016-03-13 kl. 17:45, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
> Okies,
>
> for ubiquity, we already know it needs more RAM to run, than lubuntu
> needs to run.... on the 'get lubuntu' page [1] We state under 700MB  RAM
> is minimum for ubiquity. If you are happy to lower that to 256MB I'm
> happy to make the edit :)
>
> For Alternate, we should be able to probe down to the lowest level that
> lubuntu will actually run on (with the proviso of a browser eating up
> resources - which is covered in those notes[2])
>
> 1.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu%2B1#Types_of_installation
> 2.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall+1#Low_Resource_Browser
>
> On 13 March 2016 at 16:16, Henk Terhell <hterhell at chello.nl
> <mailto:hterhell at chello.nl>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Op 2016-03-13 om 11:36 schreef Nio Wiklund:
>
>         Hi Henk and other Lubuntu users, who want to test installing
>         with low RAM,
>
>         I see what you mean. I was testing last night with my Toshiba
>         with Intel i5. It is usually working fast, Lubuntu can be
>         completely installed within a couple of minutes.
>
>         But when I approached the low RAM limit, I had to wait for 3-4
>         minutes for the first Ubiquity window to appear.
>
>         Below the limit, I did not even get any wallpaper after 6
>         minutes, so I decided that it did not work.
>
>         I attached a modified spreadsheet with some test results from
>         last night. I found a difference:
>
>         Lubuntu 14.04.1 LTS desktop i386 can be installed with 224 MB RAM
>
>         Lubuntu Xenial daily desktop i386 can be installed with 256 MB RAM
>
>         Maybe we should state a limit:
>
>         Select 'Install Lubuntu' and set the boot option mem=xxxM and
>         press the Enter key. If the first window of the installer does
>         not appear within 5 minutes, we can consider that there is too
>         low RAM for the installer to work.
>
>         Maybe we should suggest more patience, for example 10 minutes.
>         What do *you* think?
>
>         Best regards
>         Nio
>
>
>     For me 5 min is enough to despair about finishing the installation.
>
>
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